Clifford: Successful co-founder matching requires rapid trial and failure, not algorithms
Matt Clifford · Entrepreneur First’s Founder On Indian Talent, AI Startups, Selling SaaS Globally And Silicon Valley · Aug 2, 2024 · at 11:03
Matt Clifford, co-founder of Entrepreneur First, discusses how the accelerator evolved its methodology for pairing prospective founders who did not know each other beforehand.
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“The way you do this well, isn't by having like a really good matching algorithm or Doing really great matchmaking or doing a lot of like marriage counseling for co-founders. The way you get really good at it is by letting people test and fail very, very rapidly.”
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